About Trans Media Watch

Trans Media Watch is a charity that aims to improve media coverage of trans and
intersex issues. It is run by volunteers and depends on ordinary trans and
intersex people to be its eyes and ears. It aims to reflect the concerns of
those people and of the community as a whole.

Trans Media Watch is concerned with issues affecting all people covered by the
transgender umbrella, including transsexual people, non-binary people,
crossdressers and other gender variant people. It also deals with issues
affecting intersex people. It works with individuals themselves and with
parents, carers and support organisations who may be assisting them.

Trans Media Watch works proactively with organisations across the press and
broadcast sectors. It is there to challenge problem coverage but its principal
aim is to prevent things from going wrong in the first place. It does this by
providing helpful resources designed to be used in a variety of situations, and
by delivering training. Where possible, it works with editors and commissioners
to provide guidance as projects develop.

The mandate for Trans Media Watch's work comes from ongoing research and
engagement with the communities whose concerns it represents. It aims to be a
listening organisation and to acknowledge the diversity of opinions in some
areas. Although there will always be individuals who disagree with elements of
its strategy, it strives to represent the majority view within these communities
without suppressing minority voices.